Fuseki “Can't find jarfile to run”

Question

I am trying set up Fuseki, and I have followed the documentation but am new to Fuseki. I specified the path in the terminal.

 $ /Users/rumplestilskin/Downloads/jena-fuseki-0.2.7/fuseki-server --update --mem /ds

I am getting the error:

Can't find jarfile to execute

I am not sure where the jarfile needs to be in order for it to be found. fuseki-server.jar is currently in the same directory as fuseki-server.

Answer 1

You need to set the environment variable FUSEKI_HOME:

$ /usr/local/lib/jena-fuseki-0.2.7/fuseki-server --mem /ds
Can't find jarfile to run

$ FUSEKI_HOME=/usr/local/lib/jena-fuseki-0.2.7 /usr/local/lib/jena-fuseki-0.2.7/fuseki-server --mem /ds
08:42:46 INFO  Dataset: in-memory
08:42:46 INFO  Home Directory: /usr/local/lib/jena-fuseki-0.2.7
08:42:46 INFO  Dataset path = /ds
08:42:46 INFO  Fuseki 0.2.7 2013-05-11T22:05:51+0100
08:42:46 INFO  Started 2013/06/28 08:42:46 EDT on port 3030

It actually seems like the fuseki-server script should try to guess this, based on the following code in fuseki-server.

export FUSEKI_HOME="${FUSEKI_HOME:-$PWD}"

if [ ! -e "$FUSEKI_HOME" ]
then
    echo "$FUSEKI_HOME does not exist" 1>&2
    exit 1
    fi

The actual description of FUSEKI_HOME is in the fuseki (not fuseki-server) script:

$ grep -B 1 -A 3 -m 1 FUSEKI_HOME /usr/local/lib/jena-fuseki-0.2.7/fuseki
#
# FUSEKI_HOME
#   Where Fuseki is installed.  If not set, the script will try
#   to guess it based on the script invokation path.
#